Vice Quotes

I won vice president of my student body in high school. That doesn't mean anything.

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.

I readily admit I was not an expert on foreign policy but I was knowledgeable and I didn't need a man who was the Vice President of the United States and my opponent turning around and putting me down.

We often don't think of them, we think of the great wars and the great battles, but what about losing a son or a daughter, or a girl losing her husband or vice versa? I think of the people who never got the chance to have the opportunities I had.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

The President has only 190 million bosses. The Vice President has 190 million and one.

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.

After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.

This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.